Coherent Air is the name of my New Age cover band.
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Jeez, man, if you do it backwards you hear all kinds of Satanic shit.
If youâd buy cables like these, youâd probably appreciate the music better that way anyway.
One of these days, someone is going to have to investigate whether the people who sell stuff like this believe their own bullshit.
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To be fair, you can spend several hundred dollars on network cabling without feeling too ripped off:
http://www.diablocable.com/7m-qsfp-to-4-sfp-breakout-splitter-24awg-passive-octopus-cable.html
But youâre going to be spending tens of thousands on the equipment youâre connecting.
My favourite is this speaker cable at ÂŁ54,415 per pair for five metres.
http://www.futureshop.co.uk/product_info.php?currency=GBP&products_id=5958#.U4b0Fyjm6ls
For best results, use it with British-made high-end audio equipment that breaks all the fucking time.
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In all seriousness I would spend some real money on cables that were cat proof.
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Yeah, my system probably sucks. I suppose I should throw away a few thousand bucks on audiophile placebo.
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Thatâs what I hear playing it forwards. Itâs the whole point of black metal.
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Maybe thereâs a rule of thumb (pushed by salesmen) that budgets some sizable fraction of the budget to cabling. And since you can buy ludicrously overpriced speakers, there are apparently budgets that misallocate thousands of dollars to cables. Itâs the same thing as being asked to buy a HDMI cable for $40 to hook up a $70 bluray player, though in that case, Best Buy etc have a (temporarily) captive market, and overprice all the cables.
BTW the reviewer of that pair of speakers was involved in the as yet unclaimed James Randi Educational Foundation million dollar challenge (and not in a wholly admirable capacity, either)
Iâve seen someone on a forum claim with a straight face (well, I assume a straight face was worn while typing it)
that 10% of the amount spent on the sound system should be spent on cables.
With loudspeakers you have the concepts of engineering, design and build quality. But with a cable, as long as you get all the electrons out on the other side, itâs good.
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That has been done.
To terminate the cable, separate the pairs, and twist them together, all coloured ones for one pole, and the white ones for the other pole. Cut, and untwist just enough to strip the ends. Retwist, and terminate. I prefer banana plugs, spades tend to work loose.
You can expect to use 10-15 hours making a pair of cables 3 m long.
At a living wage of 13.22 per hour, thatâs a $200 speaker cable.
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Iâve never liked that kind of calculation.
If you do it in your spare time, itâs probably not because youâre trying to save the money, itâs because you enjoy making it. And from an economical POV, itâs not like you would realistically have done paid work for those hours if you werenât making speaker cable, so youâre not actually losing any money.
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No. Itâs two monthsâ salary. Well, for the diamond cables at least.
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Does anybody actually buy these cables? Or these listings just numbers stations?
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Uh what? Youâre not making sense.
Diamonds are overpriced.
The idea that a man should spend a significant fraction of his annual income for an engagement ring originated de novo from De Beers marketing materials in the mid-20th century, in an effort to increase the sale of diamonds. In the 1930s, they suggested that a man should spend the equivalent of one monthâs income in the engagement ring; later they suggested that he should spend two monthsâ income on it. In 2012, the average cost of an engagement ring in USA as reported by the industry was US$4,000.
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